A+ 220-702 Practice Questions Handout 2 2011
You lose a screw at the bottom of the printer that you are working on. You cannot pick up the screw with your
hand because the area is too small.
What tool can you use to retrieve it?
Multimeter
Extension magnet
Multi-driver
Torx wrench
Which ntbackup switch allows you to designate whether a backup type is normal, copy, differential, incremental,
or daily?
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What is IMAP?
An e-mail protocol that allows users to selectively download messages.
A protocol that authenticates users who are sending e-mail.
A protocol that allows real-time messaging.
An e-mail protocol that allows users to send but not receive messages.
You are looking for ways to prevent users from removing data from their computer systems. You have disabled
all floppy disk drives, and the computers are configured with read-only CD/DVD players.
What else should you do? (Choose two.)
Password protect the system BIOS.
Flash the system BIOS.
Disable all USB ports in the system BIOS.
Disable onboard disk controllers in the system BIOS.
Disable hard disk discovery in the system BIOS.
You are building a desktop personal computer (PC) that will support a sound card and a media reader.
For which type of motherboard and case will you need to install a riser card?
New Low-Profile Extended (NLX)
Micro Advanced Technology Extended (Micro ATX)
Balanced Technology Extended (BTX)
Advanced Technology Extended (ATX)
A user has installed an internal modem in her computer, but it is not detected by Windows XP. She has a CDROM containing drivers.
What should she do?
Use Device Manager to enable the modem.
Use the System utility to create a hardware profile that contains the modem.
Use the Add Hardware wizard to install the modem.
Use Network Connections to configure a dial-up connection.
As an added layer of security, a proxy server has been installed on your corporate network. You need to
configure Internet Explorer on the client computers to use the proxy server when accessing the Internet.
How do you access the proxy settings in Internet Explorer? In the list on the right, select the steps that are
required to configure Internet Explorer to use a proxy server. Place your selections in the list on the left in the
order in which they should occur. Place your selections in the list on the left by clicking the items in the list on
the right and clicking the arrow button. You can also use the up and down buttons to rearrange items in the list
on the left. You may not need to use all of the items from the list on the right.
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A user installs an application on a computer running Windows. After installing the application, the computer
begins receiving a series of pop-up ads.
What is most likely wrong?
The application installed adware on the computer.
The application installed a worm.
The application is a Trojan horse.
The application contains a logic bomb.
You are building a personal computer (PC) that has two 32-bit slots for RIMM memory. You install a 32-bit
RIMM module in one of the slots.
What must you install in the vacant slot?
A C-RIMM module
A 32-bit RIMM module or a CT-RIMM module
A C-RIMM module or a CT-RIMM module
A 32-bit RIMM module
You want to prevent Windows Vista from loading specific applications during startup. You want all other
applications to start as they normally would. You also want the ability to re-enable the applications to
automatically start up in the future.
What command allows you to disable the startup applications?
msconfig
edit
dir
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Your wireless network is secured using WEP. You need to improve data encryption to minimize the chance that
data transmissions might be compromised.
What should you do?
Disable SSID broadcast on all access points.
Change the WEP shared key each week.
Implement MAC address filtering.
Reconfigure the network to use WPA.
You need to ensure that Active Directory domain user Alice does not have read access to the folder named
Graphics. The Graphics folder is shared to the network from the server named FS0. The disk partition on which
Graphics is located is formatted as NTFS.
Your solution should not impact other users.
What should you do?
Explicitly deny read access to the folder to Alice through local access security.
Explicitly deny read access to the folder to Alice through shared access security.
Remove Alice from any domain group that has access to the Graphics folder.
Deny read access to the Graphics folder to any group to which Alice belongs.
You are shopping for a hard disk drive for a personal computer (PC) that you are building.
For which reason would you purchase a disk drive that uses the SATA 3.0 (SATA V2) standard instead of the
original SATA standard?
You want a drive that does not use jumpers.
You plan to install an external disk drive.
You need to optimize performance for audio and video applications.
You need to support hot swapping of the disk drive.
You have intermittent connectivity to www.measureup.com and want to check connectivity to the server over
several hours.
Which command should you use?
nslookup
ipconfig
ping -t
ping -l
For which of the following should you implement QoS in a small office/home office (SOHO) environment?
VoIP
Instant messaging
SSID
E-mail
The process of logging onto a network with a user name and password is an example of which of the following?
Authentication
Authorization
Impersonation
Identification
You are building a personal computer (PC) with a motherboard that supports the Scalable Link Interface (SLI)
by NVIDIA. You plan to install two SLI graphics cards with a hardware bridge, and you want to optimize
performance for graphics processing.
Which expansion slots should you use?
One PCI slot and one PCIe slot
One AGP slot and one CNR slot.
Two AGP slots
Two PCIe slots
You want to repair disk errors and recover data from bad sectors on a user's laptop.
Which chkdsk switches allow you to repair and extract data from the bad sectors? (Choose two.)
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You are setting up a home office and need broadband Internet access. You need to keep the costs and
additional equipment required to a minimum.
What WAN technology should you use?
Cable modem
T1 line
T3 line
ISDN
You need to secure access to network file servers. Your first task is to determine current access permissions.
What should you do?
Review effective access permissions.
Review network access permissions.
Review group access permissions.
Review local access permissions.
You are upgrading components in a computer to refurbish it. The motherboard and BIOS are five years old. You
are concerned that the BIOS may not properly support some of the components you want to install.
Which component might require updating Flash ROM contents before the installation will work properly?
100Base-TX network adapter
Power supply
80 GB hard drive
128MB of physical SDRAM
56K modem
Graphics card for 1600 x 1200 display
DVD-ROM drive
What version of Windows uses the Sync Center to manage synchronizing offline files?
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Home
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 7
You have recently implemented a WLAN and want to maximize security. You only want specific wireless clients
to be able to access the WLAN.
What should you do?
Implement MAC filtering.
Use BitLocker.
Disable WEP.
Enable SSID broadcasting.
Your antivirus program identifies an infected file but cannot remove it because it is in use.
You need to remove the infected file.
What should you do?
Update the virus signatures.
Boot into Safe Mode and run the virus scan again.
Get a different antivirus program.
Run the fixmbr command.
Which statement about installing DIMMs is true?
DIMMs have a cut-away portion on one end to help you line them up properly.
You insert the DIMM at a 35-degree angle and raise it into place.
You must install DIMMs in matching pairs.
You push the DIMM straight down into the socket.
Your network has a file server running Microsoft Windows XP Professional with a 2.2 GHz Pentium 4 processor,
1 GB of RAM, and one IDE hard disk. The computer has 20 GB of free hard disk space.
Performance has gradually degraded on the file server. The number of users accessing the file server has not
changed significantly over time. You need to improve the computer's performance.
What should you do first?
Use Disk Manager to determine the amount of fragmentation on the hard disk.
Use System Manager to monitor processor user time.
Use Network Monitor to determine the network traffic levels.
Use System Monitor to determine memory usage.
You are implementing a wireless network. You want to provide the best security during data transmission.
What should you do?
Implement WEP.
Implement WPA2.
Disable SSID broadcasting.
Enable content filtering.
You discover a program running in the background on several network computers. The program is collecting
address and computer name information from your network and sending it to an address on the Internet.
This is an example of what kind of threat?
Spyware
Worm
Rootkit
Spam
How can you designate an EIDE hard drive as a slave? (Choose two.)
Designate it as Slave in the BIOS Setup.
Connect the hard drive to the Slave port on the motherboard.
Connect the hard drive to the motherboard using the Slave connector portion of a Cable Select cable.
Set the jumper to Slave.
You have recently set up Microsoft Windows Vista Business on five computers in a remote office and you want
to be able to use Remote Desktop from the main office to manage these computers. You do not want users in
other remote offices to be able to run Remote Desktop sessions on these computers.
You need to allow Remote Desktop access to these remote computers only from the main office subnet.
What should you do?
Configure a custom inbound rule allowing a Remote Desktop connection using Windows Firewall with
Advanced Security on each computer.
Configure the Windows Firewall rules in Control Panel to allow the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
Configure the Windows Firewall rules in Control Panel to allow Remote Assistance.
Ensure that only users in the main office are included in a Remote Assistance invitation e-mail message.